Sperm counts have plunged by nearly 60 per cent in just 40 years among men living in the West, according to a major review of scientific studies that suggests the modern world is causing serious damage to men's health.

根据一项对众多科研的总结回顾研究，现代世界正在给男性健康造成严重的损害，在西方国家生活的男性中，精子数量下降了近60%。

Pesticides, hormone-disrupting chemicals, diet, stress, smoking and obesity have all been “plausibly associated” with the problem, which is associated with a range of other illnesses such as testicular cancer and a generally increased mortality rate.

The researchers who carried out the review said the rate of decline had showed no sign of “levelling off” in recent years.

进行回顾研究的研究员说，下降速度表明近年来并没有“趋于平稳”的迹象。

The same trend was not seen in other parts of the world such as South America, Africa and Asia, although the scientists said fewer studies had been carried out there.
同样的趋势没有在世界其他地区，如南美、非洲和亚洲中出现，尽管科学家说那里进行的研究较少。

One expert commenting on the study said it was the “most comprehensive to date”, and described the figures as “shocking” and a “wake-up call” for urgent research into the reasons driving the fall.

一位专家评论这项研究时说，这是“迄今为止最全面的”，并将这些数据描述为“令人震惊的”，以及对导致数量下跌的原因进行紧急研究的“警钟”。

Writing in the journal Human Reproduction Update, the researchers – from Israel, the US, Denmark, Brazil and Spain – said total sperm count had fallen by 59.3 per cent between 1971 and 2011 in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Sperm concentration fell by 52.4 per cent.

“Therefore, sperm count may sensitively reflect the impacts of the modern environment on male health throughout the life course.”

“因此，精子数可能会敏感地反映出，现代环境在整个生命过程中对男性健康的影响。”

Chemicals linked to lowering sperm count include some used to make plastics more flexible and flame retardants used in furniture. These can enter the food chain after they are taken in by plants or eaten by animals.

与降低精子数量有关的化学物质包括一些用来使塑料更柔软的化合物和用于家具的阻燃剂。在被植物吸收或被动物吃掉后，它们可能进入食物链中。

A diet high in alcohol, caffeine, processed meat, soy and potatoes may also have an adverse effect on male fertility.

对于男性的生育能力，高含酒精，咖啡因，以及加工过的肉类、大豆和土豆的饮食习惯，可能也会有不利的影响。

Aside from the obvious implications for reproduction, the researchers said the declines were consistent with reported trends in testicular cancer, the number of children born with one or both testicles missing, the onset of male puberty and total testosterone levels.

“The public health implications are even wider. Recent studies have shown that poor sperm count is associated with overall morbidity and mortality,” they added.

公共卫生的影响甚至更大。最近的研究表明，贫乏的精子数与整体发病率和死亡率有关。

They called for urgent work to find out the reasons behind the decline, noting a few possible candidates.

他们呼吁紧急行动，找出衰减背后的原因，标注一些可能的候选原因。

“While the current study is not designed to provide direct information on the causes of the observed declines, sperm count has been plausibly associated with multiple environmental and lifestyle influences, both prenatally and in adult life,” the scientists said.

科学家们说:“虽然目前的研究并不是为了给下降的原因提供直接的信息，但在产前和成年生活中，精子数量与多种环境和生活方式的影响有明显关系。”

“In particular, endocrine disruption from chemical exposures or maternal smoking during critical windows of male reproductive development may play a role in prenatal life, while lifestyle changes and exposure to pesticides may play a role in adult life.

“Thus, a decline in sperm count might be considered as a ‘canary in the coal mine' for male health across the lifespan. Our report of a continuing and robust decline should, therefore, trigger research into its causes, aiming for prevention.”

One of the team, Professor Shanna Swan, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, said falling sperm counts had been “of great concern” since they were first noticed about 25 years ago.

She added: “This definitive study shows, for the first time, that this decline is strong and continuing.

她补充说:“这项权威研究首次表明，这种下降势头强劲而且持续。

“The fact that the decline is seen in Western countries strongly suggests that chemicals in commerce are playing a causal role in this trend.”

“在西方国家，这种下降趋势表明，商业中的化学物质在这一趋势中起着因果性的作用。”

Professor Daniel Brison, an expert in clinical embryology at Manchester University who was not involved in the review, said the study's large size meant any debate about whether the decline was happening was probably over.

没有参与这项研究的曼彻斯特大学临床胚胎学专家丹尼尔·布里森说，这项研究的规模很大，意味着任何关于下降是否发生的争论都可能终结了。

He said by including a large number of studies from around the world the researchers had been able to “confirm that the decline in sperm counts is likely to be 'real'”.

他说，通过涵盖来自世界各地的大量研究，研究人员已经能够“确认精子数量的下降很可能是‘真的’”。

And Professor Brison added: “The extent of the decline in sperm counts in the Western world revealed in this study is shocking.

布里森教授补充道:“在这项研究中，西方世界精子数量下降的程度令人震惊。”

“As the authors point out, this has major implications not just for fertility but for male health and wider public health.

正如作者所指出的，这不仅对生育，而且对男性健康和更广泛的公共卫生都有重大影响。

“An unanswered question is whether the impact of whatever is causing declining sperm counts will be seen in future generations of children via epigenetic or other mechanisms operating in sperm.

“一个未解的问题是：无论导致精子数量下降的原因是什么，在未来几代儿童中，通过表观遗传或其他精子内的运作机制，是否能看到它们的影响。”

“This study should act as a wake-up call to prompt active research in this area.”

“这项研究应该作为一个警钟激励这个领域的积极研究。”

Professor Richard Sharpe, of Edinburgh University, said the “well-designed and statistically rigorous study” appeared to show that the decrease was “real beyond any reasonable doubt”.

爱丁堡大学的理查德·夏普教授说，“精心设计和统计严谨的研究”似乎表明，这种减少是“排除了任何合理性怀疑的真实存在”。

“As the authors point out, the continuous nature of the decline is of as much concern as the decline itself, given that we still do not know what lifestyle, dietary or chemical exposures might have caused this decrease,” he said.

他说:“正如作者所指出的，下降的持续性质和下降本身一样令人担忧，因为我们仍然不知道是生活方式、饮食还是化学物质暴露导致了这种减少。”

“Research efforts to identify these causes need to be redoubled and to be non-presumptive as to cause.”

“需要加倍努力研究查明这些原因，而且不是那种假定的原因。”

Professor Sharpe said that across Northern Europe today more than 15 per cent of young men had a sperm count low enough to “impair their fertility”.

夏普教授说，如今在整个北欧，超过15%的年轻人的精子数都很低，低到足以“减弱他们的生育能力”。

“And, as the present study indicates, this is likely to get worse rather than better as we move forwards in time,” he warned.

他警告说:“正如目前的研究表明的那样，随着时间的推移，这可能会变得更糟糕，而不是更好。”

He added that this effect, when combined with the trend for women to have a baby in their thirties, created a “double whammy for couple fertility in modern Western societies”.

他补充说，当这个效应与女性倾向于在30多岁生育的趋势相结合时，造成了“现代西方社会中的夫妻生育的双重打击”。

“Therefore, looking ahead, I can only conclude that couple infertility is set to increase. Hopefully, this new study will serve as a wake-up call for health and research authorities as well as for the public, and for young people in particular,” Professor Sharpe said.

7 days ago
SJ
So what happens when the west is gone? The remainder of the world recedes back into their caves. No more innovation and advancement, no-one to copy!

那么，西方世界消失后会发生什么？世界上其它地方的人会退回到洞穴里。不再有创新和进步，没得复制了！

12 days ago
Tigerseye
My first reaction to this was: Could this be, at least partly, due to the same thing that is killing the bees?
So, pesticides, probably.
My second reaction was: Could it be, at least partly, due to the return of tighter underwear?
It would be interesting to see if there was a slowing of the decline, during the late '80s and '90s, when loose boxer shorts were more fashionable.

13 days ago
shbkynn73
I have been reading all the post in which whites keep saying they fed Africa's poor people. Well hold up, Europe is not giving anything to Africa's poor, it is the Africans own Europe stole from Africa. I do not believe most whites know much about their history, especially when they went to Africa, interrupted our history. Europe had nothing before they arrived in Africa looking to take from us, that they did, and still in many African countries. They need to get out before things start cranking.

13 days ago
gypseydoo
WE IN EUROPE WERE SURVIVIN VERY WELL WITHOUT AFRICA,, after all we have excellent farmers,,.

没有非洲，我们在欧洲生存得很好，毕竟我们有优秀的农民。

13 days ago
gypseydoo
average salary in liberia is $700 for 2017,,
vodoo in Togo,,

利比里亚2017年的平均工资为700美元，在Togo, vodoo

13 days ago
shbkynn73
I really do not believe it is the water that's the problem if it is why are only whites being affected?

我真的不相信这是水的问题。如果是，为什么只有白人受到影响?

13 days ago
Steve
I really do believe that both your posts above have equal value. Thank you!

我真的相信你上面的两条评论都有同样的价值。谢谢！

12 days ago
Tigerseye
We're not all white, in the West.
So, it will be affecting people of all colours.
It would appear it's a geographical problem; not a racial one.

在西方，我们并不都是白人。
因此，它会影响所有肤色的人。
这似乎是地理问题，不是种族问题。

14 days ago
ElVen
One way the population crisis is self-regulating in the western world.
Too many people is the problem no-one wants to talk about:
The Capitalist economy needs population growth for economic growth with the added benefit of a large and cheap labour force.
In future the racist scum will just have to accept that immigration is essential to maintain our relatively comfortable lifestyle and to pay our pensions.
Possibly our stupidity over the environment in years past is just coming back to bite us.

14 days ago
Not allowed to speak
more room for robots,
robots don't commit crime,
so all is good

给机器人更多空间
机器人不犯罪
所以一切都会好的

15 days ago
The_Vindicator
Women do have more options than men.That may be why they are less stressed and fewer are on the streets.

女人确实比男人有更多的选择。这可能就是为什么他们压力更小，街道上更少的原因。

15 days ago
Fubot
It's a bitter truth.
But we just have to swallow it.

这是个痛苦的事实。
但我们只能吞下它。

15 days ago
heliphobe
I guess that's where most of it has gone. What this -snowflakes- journalist fails to grasp

我想这是它们大部分消失的地方（吞了）。雪花——这是记者未能抓住的东西。

14 days ago
ElVen
A down vote for using the term "snowflake"
Tw@

投个反对票，因为你使用“雪花”这个词

15 days ago
Anil
At this rate, another 40 years or earlier and it is goodbye.

以这样的速度，再过40年或更早的时间，就可以说再见了。

15 days ago
VIC BLACKMAN
when the sap from the rubber treee is required/needed by western counties...we do not bring the whole tree to us, to be cultivated and maintained, at high cost...we import the liquid/sap...! the same makes sense, regarding immigrants !
for breeding purposes..pay the donors as one would, just load tanker ships with the necessary fluids ..import and distribute to our desperate clamouring females..it must be cheaper to the NHS and our country in the long run...!

10 days ago
Vic
Especially when we have our own backward people ... like you .....

特别是当我们自己有拖后腿的人的时候…比如你....

15 days ago
Dale Saunders
Try 12 hour daily shifts (plus travel) and 100 hour working weeks to earn the money just to survive on pathetic wages, limited diets of cheap and nasty food since we can't all afford to eat a proper diet, irregular eating times also related to working hours.

Then add to that, stress of worrying about finances, stress involved in travelling to and from work (which takes forever given the huge volume of traffic now on our roads and poor state of public transport), stress of watching what you do or say in case it "offends" someone, worrying if you're going to be the target of the next terrorist attack because the government is STILL allowing known terrorists to roam free and so much more.

You'd probably live a lot longer and have more kids if you smoked 100 a day and drank yourself into oblivion 24/7. The permanently pregnant mothers on the dole are testimony to that, seems that there's no shortage of dole scrounging drunken men able to get them pregnant.

15 days ago
Jim Muncy
^ A declaration of depressing denunciations from Dale Downer, the Duke of Demoralization.

一个来自道德败坏的公爵Dale Downer的令人沮丧的谴责的声明。

15 days ago
gmailindependent
The problem is that Western men have become too weak and sensitive, compared to real men from non-western countries. Just look at your comment and all the problems that you are wailing about

14 days ago
ElVen
Change your job or go back to school for appropriate education.
If you are committing yourself to 12 hour days/100hour weeks then you are spending 2?hours a day travelling.
I did that, earned a packet then retired.
You are "working" a minimum of 84 hours a week?
At just minimum hourly rate you draw over ￡2k per month for your declared hours, ￡750 per week. Not enough to live on? You must live in London and commute out!

15 days ago
Rat 5
It would appear that nagging is genetic advantage because it keeps us boys in line, thus improving the chances of our offspring. Teaching them how to wheelie motorbikes much as we like doing so doesn't improve their chances of survival

似乎唠叨是遗传的优势，因为它使我们的孩子保持协调一致，从而提高了我们后代的机会。教他们像我们喜欢的那样去骑摩托车，并不会提高他们的生存机会

15 days ago
Tryingforpeace
You know very little about biology it seems. But feel free to comment as we need a laugh on our lunch breaks.

你看来对生物学知道得很少。请随意评论，因为我们午休时需要乐子。

14 days ago
ElVen
Wow, much respect, with that attitude you must be 125 years old!

哇，很尊重，这样的态度，你一定有125岁了!

15 days ago
VictorMeldrew
Don't worry folks,The Muslims will breed enough for all. With an eye for future domination.

伙计们，别担心，穆斯林会为大家生足够多的。看好未来的支配者。

15 days ago
dimotane co
That's probably their master plan isn't it? Pollute the west and then outbreed them?
Is that what you lot all talk about on your Nazi forums in the dark web?

那可能是他们直主的计划，不是吗？污染西方，然后跨种族繁殖?
那就是你们在黑暗网络里的纳粹论坛上谈论的话题吗?

15 days ago
robertbob
Thats was Winston Churchill's plan after killing millions of our own people in WWII.
He then went out to the colonies and invited them to come to Britain.
So don't blame the EU or Blair.
Blame Fat Boy!

15 days ago
whomightyoube
Plastic bags in the water supply
Make fish change sex and grown men cry
They break down to oestrogenators
So that's bigger manboobs and smaller potatoes.

水供应里的塑料袋
令鱼变性，令成年男人哭
它们分解成雌激素
于是就有了更大的男人胸部和更小的土豆。

15 days ago
Goreseer
Well Britain Imports Humans Who Have Reach The Age Of Seven, So There Is Profit Created Near Work Ready, All You Need Is A Passport In The New World Order.

英国引进已经年满7岁的人，几乎可以工作了，所以这是有益的，你所需要的是新世界秩序的护照。

15 days ago
PrescientPaul
Long term it's good news. The emperor has been starkers since the late 19th century. There are simply far too many of us. The projection rates for population expansion are obscene. Yet who has the bottle to acknowledge it? It makes global warming look about as serious as a farmer leaking fertiliser in a canal.